Re: [edict-jmdict] Suggestions to Improve Layout

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@*********>]

2008/6/27 Dennis Schrader <jpnthailand@gmail.com>:
> There's actually an invitation on th response page when you put in an entry
> or amendment. I think that's a good place for it. It means a user has to have
> reached a level of confidence before they see it.

> I know but unless one actually goes so far as to submit a New Entry or
> Amendment he will be unaware of the option.

Actually there is another path into Colossal Cave too. See:'
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html#IREF01a  (Yes, I know
it means reading documentation, but ....)

> Perhaps more importantly, at least for aesthetics, is the uneven way columns
> (I set to columns 'cause for once I have a big enough monitor) - sometimes
> they are lopsided left, sometimes right. If it's too much of a headache,
> don't worry about it - just would make the site look a bit more professional
> to fix it.

Very, very difficult to "fix". To balance it, the server would have to do two
passes over the entries, trying to work out how much vertical space
would be needed
so that the break could go in the optimal place. Since that's
dependent on issues
quite outside the server's knowledge, such as the size of the screen
you have, the
font sizes you have selected, etc. etc. it's all too hard to attempt
in a meaningful
way. I have gone for the simple approach, which is to dived the
entries in two and
put half in one column and half in the other.

BTW, it only goes into columns when there are 6 or more entries.

> Btw, folks, I am not intending to shout in my emails, usually. It's just
> that this GMail is so completely strange in its sometimes-can-adjust,
> sometimes-can't-adjust its font styles and sizes. I never, never had this
> problem with Yahoo, which I have used since its inception.

I use Gmail in text mode.

Cheers

Jim

-- 
Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/